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<p>[QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3084544, member: 88829"][USER=1844]@dougsmit[/USER] Different hair treatment for sure. The "nurses cap" look? It's a class 1 style with a single row of dots & hair-crest, but a strange shape to the crest. It's also from a different series than the ones I show. It is from series 4 with all the series markers in the exergue, dated 326-327.</p><p><br /></p><p>With that second coin, Doug, you lead us into new territory. That is one of the later AE4 bronzes in honor of Helena that was first issued in 330 at the dedication of the new capital city, Constantinople. After her death, but before 340, Trier/Treveri also got into the act of producing these. I think the exergue on your coin reads CONSEpsilon with a "terminal dot" to the right. With the first obverse break pattern for Helena this is RIC VIII 33. I would recommend a separate thread for those, and some of them have interesting obverses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3084544, member: 88829"][USER=1844]@dougsmit[/USER] Different hair treatment for sure. The "nurses cap" look? It's a class 1 style with a single row of dots & hair-crest, but a strange shape to the crest. It's also from a different series than the ones I show. It is from series 4 with all the series markers in the exergue, dated 326-327. With that second coin, Doug, you lead us into new territory. That is one of the later AE4 bronzes in honor of Helena that was first issued in 330 at the dedication of the new capital city, Constantinople. After her death, but before 340, Trier/Treveri also got into the act of producing these. I think the exergue on your coin reads CONSEpsilon with a "terminal dot" to the right. With the first obverse break pattern for Helena this is RIC VIII 33. I would recommend a separate thread for those, and some of them have interesting obverses.[/QUOTE]
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